Eight workers at a Nebraska meat processing plant claimed a record $365m (£209.4m) in the Powerball lottery yesterday - about $15.5m each after taxes.

The seven men - two of whom are from Vietnam and another from the Republic of Congo - and one woman work at the ConAgra plant near the convenience store where they bought the ticket for Saturday's lottery.

"I didn't know what to think," said one of the winners, Robert Stewart, 30, a maintenance supervisor. "I still don't know what to think." The previous US lottery jackpot record was $363m for the Big Game.